This map has been generated by Mapmate 26/02/2012
Distribution:
Still to be found in the South Liverpool district at Allerton (SJ48D, S Fletcher, c. 1995); Wavertree Road (SJ38T, H McGhie, 2004); hospiral grounds at the bottom of Penny Lane (SJ3887, P Tipping, 2010); Kirkby (SJ49E, C Fenton, 2010); on Poplars at a farm near Haydock (SJ5447, DP Earl, 2009); near Hesketh Bank (SD4223, J Lamb, 2010); Astley (SJ7094, MPG Tolfree, 1995); near Deansgate Station (SJ8397, Greater Manchester Ecology Unit, 2008); Fielden Park Campus West Didsbury (SJ8391, A Hunt, 2008); near Fletcher Moss, Didsbury (SJ8490, D Bishop, 2008).
A plant at Walmer Bridge (SD42S, S Cross, 1998) that occurred on a cultivated hawthorn has since been lost.
Former distribution:
Otterspool & Sefton Park (SJ38T, Dickinson 1855); Atherton (SD60W, J Evans, Grindon 1859); Prestwich (SD80B, Grindon 1859, JC Melvill, 1877); Great Crosby (SJ39E, Green 1902); Allerton Cemetery (SJ48C, Green 1933); Heaton Cemetery, Bolton (SD60Z, A Hazelwood, 1958); near Denton (SJ99H, Anon., 1970); Didsbury (SJ89K, Anon., 1971); Flixton (SJ79M, Anon., 1971).
Habitat:
Gardens, cemeteries and hedgerows, known to be parasitic on Poplar, Lime, Hawthorn, Apple and Crab Apple.
Comments:
A neophyte in South Lancashire.